About Louise's work
A textile artist with a love of words, Louise draws on the intimacy of handwriting to evoke inky love letters, diary entries and secret notes.
With a deeply empathetic approach, she explores lived or imagined perspectives - being drawn to stories and words that resonate with her own experience.
From this shared feeling, confessional handwritten notes are scaled up to become celebrations of tenderness and vulnerability, in sheer silk - delicate enough to hold and echo the words as shadows.
"I've always been drawn to textiles because we have this uniquely intimate, but also very everyday, relationship with fabric. We have a familiarity and sense of how a material will feel on our skin, how heavy or soft it might be."
LOUISE BROOKE
About Louise
Louise is based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Originally from Glasgow, she studied Fashion Design at the University of Leeds, graduating in 2015.
In 2025, Louise returned to creative practice, combining her love of words and textiles. This followed a deeply personal career change journey, after her partner’s diagnosis with Becker Muscular Dystrophy. The first piece she created featured the Tom Waits’ lyric ‘You Can Never Hold Back Spring’ - a celebration of hope and inevitable renewal.
She has created textile pieces for The Grand Island Hotel, The Sunday Letter Project, Matt Eich at Mule Resophonic Guitars and the Poetry Pharmacy in York.
Louise is a member of NEEDLE North East Textile Artists and the Collective Studio 25-26 at The NewBridge Project.
